INTENSIVES

The Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will be offering two intensives at BBCF 2011. Register for the Advanced Where’s/Action Intensive and receive free access to all BBCF shows!

ADVANCED WHERE’S/ACTION INTENSIVE (2.5 days)


DESCRIPTION: As improvisers, one of our ongoing and most challenging tasks is to create where’s and action. Otherwise, we just stand there and talk, and our ability to portray the full range of human experience is severely limited. Remember, we can actually make an audience see things and places that aren’t there on stage, if only we have the skills and commitment to make it happen. It is the truly magical part of improvisation! In this course, you’ll work on the five guidelines of Advanced Where’s/Action which Tim Orr has developed through 23 years of performing and teaching improvisational theatre. These techniques, used together, give you the all the skills you need to create dynamic environments in any improv format. BE ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE! DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!

INSTRUCTOR: Tim Orr, Artistic Director of Improv Playhouse of San Francisco

DATES/TIME: THU 9/29 and FRI 9/30 from 10am-6pm; SAT 10/1 from 11am-3pm

CLASS SIZE: 12 students (at least 10)

PRICING: $190 (Includes free access to all BBCF shows!)

LOCATION: Relapse Theatre 380 14th St. Atlanta, GA (map)

LONG-FORM IMPROV INTENSIVE (1 day)


DESCRIPTION: Learn how to create sustained, improvised stories in any style or genre! This course focuses on the core elements that make Improv Playhouse of San Francisco-style long-form successful—Ensemble, Narrative, Acting, and Genres/Characters/Where’s. This all-day intensive is for both improvisers with previous experience who want to step up to the next level and for improvisers who are just starting to do long-form stories. This is a unique opportunity to study with all 4 of the Improv Playhouse of San Francisco actors who have headlined the BBCF in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dave Dennison, Lisa Rowland, Regina Saisi, and Artistic Director Tim Orr have all signed on to stay an extra day and teach this intensive together – an exciting and unique opportunity!

INSTRUCTORS: Dave Dennison, Lisa Rowland, Tim Orr and Regina Saisi

DATES/TIME: SUN 10/2 from 10am-6pm

CLASS SIZE: 14 students (at least 12)

PRICING: $90

LOCATION: Relapse Theatre 380 14th St. Atlanta, GA (map)

INSTRUCTORS


DaveDennison.pngDAVE DENNISON
Dave’s love affair with improvisational theater began at BATS Improv in 1993. He has been a member of the Mainstage Company at BATS since 1998 and served as the Artistic Director from 2005-2008. Dave has played with a number of improv troupes including Scratch Theater, The Particulars and Start Trekkin and as a guest with True Fiction Magazine and the Secret Improv Society to name a few. In 2003, he developed the Family Drama 3 act stage play format at BATS. Dave and Lisa Rowland developed the Awkward Dinner Party format in 2008. He has been teaching Improv for five years at BATS and Stanford University, working with beginning, intermediate and advanced students.


TimOrr.pngTIM ORR
Tim has improvised since 1988 with many San Francisco-based groups, including BATS Improv, Rafe Chase’s groundbreaking longform troupe Improv Theatre, the renowned True Fiction Magazine, and with the acclaimed troupe 3 For All. In 2009, he founded a new improv group, the Improv Playhouse of San Francisco. He has appeared in numerous plays in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received critical acclaim for his leading roles in the improvised feature films, Suckerfish and Security. With Stephen Kearin, Tim co-wrote, and originated the role of Dirk Manly in, An Evening with Dirk & Blaine. Tim has performed (and taught) improvisation at the American Conservatory Theatre, BATS Improv, Stanford University, and many other venues nationally (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, Louisville, Atlanta, etc.) and internationally (Amsterdam, Beirut, Helsinki, Leuven, London, Paris, Stockholm). He is currently the Director of the BATS Improv Long-Form Intensive.


LisaRowland.pngLISA ROWLAND
Lisa began improvising in The Devil Mountain Improv League at her high school in Walnut Creek, CA in 1997. She moved on to become an active member of the Stanford Improvisers at Stanford University and then joined San Francisco’s BATS Improv Company in 2005. At BATS, she has directed shows, taught improv classes in dialect and Shakespeare, as well as leading corporate improv trainings. She coaches high school improv teams and is also a regular guest improv coach at Stanford University. She and Dave Dennison developed Awkward Dinner Party in 2008.


ReginaSaisi.pngREGINA SAISI
Regina Saisi has been a professional actor/improvisor and teacher for 25 years. Her theatrical experience includes work with such directors as Maria Irene Fornes, Jose Rivera, Darrah Cloud and Gary Leon Hill. The focus of her work throughout her career has been improvisational theatre. She has been deeply involved in the fertile San Francisco improvisation community, helping to start several improv companies including Riot Squad, Improv Theatre, Pulp Playhouse, and her current company True Fiction Magazine. She is currently the Dean of the BATS School of Improv.

QUOTES FROM PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS IN SAN FRANCISCO

  • We’ve taken classes in San Diego, LA, Chicago from some very well known people, but these truly were the best teachers I’ve ever encountered.
  • Great experience and vacation…my spirit and energy has been higher than it’s been in the past year.
  • Taking this Long-Form Program offers you training with the best.
  • Transformational
  • Very inexpensively priced relative to the value received.
  • I view the world differently now…A new journey has just begun.

REFUND POLICY

  • Your class tuition includes a non-refundable deposit of 20%.
  • If you have registered for the intensive and decide you want to drop out AT LEAST 10 DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST CLASS, you may choose to receive a refund for the amount of the class minus your non-refundable deposit.
  • Students dropping out within 10 days of the first class are not eligible for any refund.